Setting default tasks
To execute a task, we use the task name on the command line when we run gradle
. So, if our build script contains a task with the first
name, we can run the task with the following command:
$ gradle first
However, we can also define a default task or multiple default tasks that need to be executed, even if we don't explicitly set the task name. So, if we run the gradle
command without arguments, the default task of our build script will be executed.
To set the default task or tasks, we use the defaultTasks
method. We pass the names of the tasks that need to be executed to the method. In the following build script, we make the first
and second
tasks the default tasks:
defaultTasks 'first', 'second' task first { doLast { println "I am first" } } task second { doFirst { println "I am second" } }
We can run our build script and get the following output:
$ gradle :first I am first :second I am second BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time...